The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-11
FACT AND FANCY.

nay, Sallorhlh.
A quartet of senaca Indians are giving con
certs In New York.
A colony OF Quakers is expected to locate In
Nevada county, California.
Many cattle are dying In the cattle ranches
of Victoria, British Columbia.
A flock of blue-birds put in an appearance
at Port ,'ervls, N. Y. Thursday
The ST. tie jute factory at San Quentin, Cal,
returned 81, s66 profits last year.
Hunters complain Of the scarcity of deer In
the mountains near Santa Rosa, Cal.
RabbIt-huntlng by moonlight is now INDUCED
In by ranchers in the vicinity OF Lexington
Three thousand rats were killed during 9
recent rat-hunt by the citizens OF Millersburg,
Ohio.
1t is thought that Elko county, Nevada,
will In year pay out 100000 in rabbit-scalE
bountles
Reno, New, complains that the sawdust In
Truckee river has produced much disease IN
that town.
There are three thousand men employed In
drift-mining in California, and the product Is
81, 000, 900 year.
Gail Hamilton says that ga woman OF 70
should be as much ashamed Of being dyspeptic
as of being drunk"
During the year 1885 s6,7l7,2 70 In fares
we're collected by the streetrai)road compa-
mics in Philadelphia.
| 1t is reported that n Californian, who has a
band of sheep In Lake county, Oregon, lost
| one thousand head last week
Oregon. The destructive animals pay noctru'
nal visits to haystacks in large droves, where
the hunters lay in wait for them,
Arrangements are being made in San Diego,
CAL, to bring out colony of one hundred
families from the south Of Ireland.
Editors in all parts OF the country are said
TO be simplifying their baskets to accommo
date an expected rush Of spring poetry.
Mention is made Of the fact that in the min
ing-exchange in Boston on recent week day
not A single share Of stock was bought or sold
A woman at Santa Cruz, Cal, has sued her
husband for divorce, the chief ground Tor com
plant being that he neglected to say grace al
his meals.
A domestic goose was killed by a gentleman
living on Cache creek, Lake county, Caliior'
MIA, recently, and in its crop was found large
quantity OF gold dust
'Isn't my poetry of ahigh orderl" exclaim'
ed the indignant poet. at is, indeed" re-
plled the editor, who remembered seeing bis
wife paperlng the garnet with 1t.
There is considerable stir among insurance
men at Carson, New, over the passage OF bill
compelling them to pay the full face OF poll
cy on total losses. 1t passed the house unani
mously.
Georgia mail carrier carried jug o
whisky with him and peddled the stun on
: along his route, believing that the government
which he represented had the best interests o
the masses at heart.
There Is at present good supply OF snow II
D the Sierras, and 1t is believed that unless Their
shall be season of warm rains early in tn
/ spring there will be no scarcity of water II
{ Carson river next summer.
Sam Jones SAYS that more social scandal
0 are originated In church gossip than anywher
1 else, and that the Lord will forgive SHINE
, ten times as quick as scandal monger
Samuel has probably felt the sting.
One of the old miestones which once ex
tended along the old Boston road In serie
from New York through the New Englan
states to Boston will stand on the Bowery.
hears the inscription zone mile from tn
City Hail."
A new arrangement has been added to tn
"chestnut bell" Now when the bell is struc
i a miniature rat runs across the breast oil tn
i wearer and stops in full view OF the victim
To make II more effective the word rats"
inscribed on the rat
n "a man has insultcd me" exclaimed lad
who had come to the ball in an extremely de
collete dress, "and want redress" "Yo
+ certainly do,n replied her brute of husband
who didn't approve of his wifes taste In dress
Redress would improve several ladies here
= According to Prof Baird a fish has no ms
turity, and there is nothing To prevent II fror
living indefinitely and growing continually
A pike living In Russia dates back In age I
u the fifteenth century. In the royal aquarium
o at'St Petersburg are fish that have been ther
+ l40 years.
e For years New Workers have been contribu
e ing to the support Of 'little colored church
supposed to exist in their midst. An invest
v CATION showed the church was 4 myth an
the supposltious pastor who has been Twin
IL ON their bounty, has been 'sent 10 the Island
- for three months.
n A chorus.grl at the Metropolitan operi
house, New York, can not get married, II
, stated, unless she gives the manager at lea'
two weeks notice, otherwise her contract b
comes null 1t is further stated that th
o manager has not been known to withhold n
=. assent In any case.
a The man who knows something ard VIII
knows that he knows something, is hspp
man; the man who knows nothing, and VIII
knows that he knows nothing is comparative